Featured Stories – Page 85
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VideoJunior Semi-Finals from the Menuhin Competition Richmond 2021
The video features performances from five internatiional candidates, aged 13-15
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter says her appeals to politicians have failed
The violinist accuses the German government’s pandemic reposnse of showing ‘downright disregard’ for musicians
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NewsMenuhin competition finalists announced
Nine young violinists will compete next week for their share of more than $80,000
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VideoDallas String Quartet delivers a Latin twist
In this video the Dallas String Quartet teams up with the jazz pianist Jesús Molina for a spicy, original single entitled ‘Sabor,’ delivering a Latin twist and spicy keys from Molina (of Colombia). Read ’I’m a classically-trained violinist, but I’d love to play Jazz. How do I start?’
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FocusEasing back into performance post Covid-19
Berenice Beverley Zammit, Graduate Teaching Assistant for Music Performance Psychology at the Royal College of Music, gives guidance on getting back into practice after a year of lockdown
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FocusHow lockdown inspired me to compose for my own instrument
When the first lockdown hit in March 2020, composer-cellist Colin Alexander was finally inspired to write multi-layered solo music for his own instrument - something he had never tried before, as he explains here
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VideoAmit Peled plays an African-American Spiritual
The Israeli cellist Amit Peled plays ‘A Motherless Child’, an African American Spiritual newly arranged for cello and orchestra, with the Asheville Symphony. Read Sentimental Work: Amit Peled Read Cellist Amit Peled launches online cello academy sessions Watch 12-year-old violinist Leia Zhu plays Kodály with cellist Amit Peled
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NewsRussia announces new system of instrument passports
Following a number of wrongful confiscations at Russian airports, the new system aims to make life easier for traveling musicians
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VideoMorgen! Nicola Benedetti and Andrew Staples perform Richard Strauss
Members of the Aurora Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon are joined by Benedetti and Staples for Strauss’s 1894 song ‘Morgen!’
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ArticleRoyal wedding conductor and violinist quits Charlotte Symphony
Christopher Warren-Green, a former concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted at the weddings of Princes Charles, William and Harry
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ArticleMexican string siblings murdered by organised crime group
José Alberto, Ana Karen and Luis Ángel González Moreno were kidnapped and killed by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
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Focus‘I think there’s a feeling that you expect out of an encore’ – Hilary Hahn
The violinist Hilary Hahn speaks to Charlotte Gardner about her encore choices
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ArticleSponsored: Waltham Forest Cello Fest 2021
Now in its third year, the London-based celebration of all things cello is back with a jam-packed programme of events
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VideoBoris Begelman plays Bach
In this music video from 2017 the violinist Boris Begelman plays the Gavotte from Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006. Read Session Report: Playing the hero
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FocusDoes criticising Vivaldi's abundant output miss the point?
Violinist Boris Begelman’s new recording represents a small fraction of the hundreds of violin concertos Vivaldi wrote during his lifetime – but people miss the point when they assume the composer’s prolific output equates to works of lesser quality, he tells Tom Stewart
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Dvorák’s Violin Concerto in a ‘concert without public’
In this concert, performed in an empty hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on 22 April 2021, Hilary Hahn plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Read How I warm up: Hilary Hahn
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ArticleHow to play on gut strings for the first time
As a violinist with only modern training, exploring the sound world of gut strings was a daunting yet exciting proposition for Francisco Fullana. Here he gives guidance on how to start and what to keep in mind
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VideoPekka Kuusisto brings Proms audience to their feet with Finnish folk song
A encore performance from 2016 that, in Kuusisto’s words, ‘has become a little larger than life’
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NewsTop violinists record tribute to Corinne Chapelle
Alumni of the Yehudi Menuhin School are raising money for the family of the violinist, who died in March
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NewsDouble bassist Naomi Shaham appointed Leipzig Gewandhaus principal
Born in 1997, Shaham currently plays with the West Eastern Divan and Budapest Festival orchestras
